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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	council_n	majesty_n	privy_a	11,336	5	9.5907	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30793	XIII sermons most of them preached before His Majesty, King Charles the II in his exile / by the late Reverend Henry Byam ... ; together with the testimony given of him at his funeral, by Hamnet Ward ...	Byam, Henry, 1580-1669.; Ward, Hamnet.	1675 (1675)	Wing B6375; ESTC R3916	157,315	338

XIII SERMONS Most of them Preached before His MAJESTY King CHARLES the II. IN HIS EXILE By the late Reverend HENRY BYAM D.D. Rector of Luckham Canon of Exeter and one of His Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary TOGETHER With the Testimony given of him at his Funeral by Hamnet Ward M. D. Vicar of Sturminster-Newton-Castle and one of the Prebendaries of the Cathedral Church at Wells LONDON Printed by T. R. for Robert Clavell at the Peacock in St. Pauls Churchyard 1675. TO THE Right Honourable HENEAGE Lord FINCH Baron of Daventry Lord Keeper of the Great SEAL of ENGLAND AND Of His Majesties most Honourable Privy Councel My Lord THese Sermons having been many of them preach'd before his Majesty in the Isles of Scilley and Jarsey and much approved and accepted of by him I cannot think to whom they may be more welcome under that qualification than to Your Lordship Your Goodness likewise giving me a confidence of Your Acceptance Your Greatness of their protection That is not only known but admired too by all that indeed know you This as I long since had the good fortune luckily to foretel so I do now most heartily congratulate Nor had I need to erect any other scheme for this prognostick than that of Your own Countenance vultus portendebat honores When You were yet young the traits of Honour were there fairly visible to any discerning Eye which now by the accession of His Majesties favour are grown so eminent that he that runs may read Your yet increasing Grandeur and Felicity May Heaven add its blessing to all your Enjoyments here and prepare for You hereafter such as Eye hath not seen nor Ear heard neither hath it entred into the Heart of Man to conceive These My Lord as they are my earnest wishes so they are my real hopes for the accomplishment whereof his Prayers shall uncessantly be poured forth who humbly begs leave to subscribe himself My Lord Your Lordships daily Votary and most obedient Servant Hamnet Ward TO THE READER I Shall not commend these Sermons to such as had the happiness to be acquainted with the Author 'T is sufficient I know to them to be assured that they are his And to such as were strangers to him I shall need say but little only what was once spoken to a Holy man in a Vision concerning the Scripture Tolle Lege Take up and read take up and read Whoever doth but diligently peruse them cannot but both like and admire them And sure if a work may receive a real addition to its worth from the reputation of its Author this may challenge as great an advantage as any since I can boldly say that for Learning Piety Charity and Loyalty the Age he lived in scarce afforded his equal He that desires to be yet farther acquainted with the transactions both of his Life and Death I refer him to what was delivered as a Testimony to him in a Sermon at his Funeral by him who highly honoured his person when living and doth now reverence his Memory being dead H. WARD A SERMON Preached before His MAJESTY King CHARLES the II. In the ISLE of JERSEY DEUT. XXXIII 7. Hear Lord the voyce of Judah and bring him unto his people let his hands be sufficient for him and be thou an help to him from his Enemies YOu expect a Sermon and I am come with a Prayer But so the fitter for the place Domus Orationis this is the House of Prayer And so the fitter for the Times Molesta tempora perilous times as the Apostle spake of them And so the fitter for the Persons Orate pro Regibus One of our chiefest Duties is to pray for Kings and all that are or should be in Authority Sermons offer themselves to the Ears and perchance find thence some further passage to the Heart But Prayers pierce the Heavens yea Coelos Aereos when they are Brass Oratio Justi a good mans prayer finds a good and speedy passage through those obstructed passages and walls of Brass James 5.16 Deut. 28.23 Now here you have not only a Prayer but a Good mans prayer the Meekest man upon the Earth Numb 12.3 and he a King too but two verses before the Text A King in Jesurun that is amongst all good and godly men a King and so esteemed or Rex apud Rectissimum as the Vulgar hath it God and all Good men acknowledge him for such And so you have the Prayer of a King for a King or rather for a Race of Kings Though a Benjamite the Son of Belial blow the Trumpet and say We have no part in David David of the Tribe of Judah yet Non non auferetur Sceptrum de Judah the Prayer is for the Sion of Judah and that Royal Race Again 'T is the Prayer of a Dying man which commonly doth most affect The las● Words leave the deepest impression behind them Extremum morientis munus non extremum munus And we would willingly preserve a Legacy especially a rich one as this is and which like the River of Paradise doth part it ●f into four heads First Hear Lord the voyce of Judah Secondly Bring him back unto his people Thirdly Let his hands be sufficient for him Fourthly And be thou an help to him from his Enemies Every one of these doth properly subdivide it self into four parts also that so we may have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 every way a Cube full of it self able to subsist upon his own Basis Audi Domine vocem Judae c. Or you have here First A Prayer in general a Two-mens-Prayer Moses and Judah which like the stem of a Tree breaks forth and parts it self into three Branches Secondly The Prayer speciallized or those special Branches First for Reduction Bring him back Secondly for Sufficiency Self-sufficiency Let his own hands do it Thirdly for Assistance Heavenly-assistance the prime Branch upon this Tree And be thou an help to him from his Enemies I shall handle the Words in their order and with what brevity I may Hear Lord the voyce of Judah O now for some Moses who might fully express the drift of Moses He would tell you We are not born for our selves alone King Country Friends every one requires some special duty at our hands He would tell you The Care of Governours doth extend it self in Nondum Natos 'T was a wretched wish of his who with himself would have the World dissolved that they might perish together But Moses knowing his day of Dissolution to approach prays for a perpetuity of happiness on his Country especially on Judah who was to sway the Scepter Hear Lord the voyce of Judah You may call it a Legacy a Prayer and a Prophecy for 't is all these and what is here given prayed for and foretold in Earth was all ratified and confirmed in Heaven And this Blessing is conveyed to Judah in a Prayer because Oratio is Clavis Gratiarum the Key which opens a door to all our happiness And